Free meals headed the way of Cadott School students
Cadott School District is participating in the Seamless Summer Option (SSO) during COVID-19, a free breakfast and lunch program for the 2021-22 school year. All students enrolled in the district are eligible to receive school meals at no charge.
USDA Free and Reduced Price Meal applications are not required to receive free meals under SSO. However, applications may be distributed by the school to collect household income data for other programs that require this information, such as the Special Milk Program, Pandemic FoodShare Benefits (P-EBT), educational funding and additional benefi ts.
Children from families whose annual income is at, or below, the levels shown are eligible for free and reduced price benefits. A student still needs to be eligible to receive free milk, if a split session student does not have access to the school lunch or breakfast service.
The following household size and income criteria will be used for determining eligibility, based on annual income.
Sedie Harms, Jim Falls, graduated from Drake University at the end of the spring 2021 semester.
Harms majored in pharmacy.
Household Size: Free: Reduced (at or between): 1 $16,744 $16,744.01 - $23,828 2 $22,646 $22,646.01 - $32,227 3 $28,548 $28,548.01 - $40,025 4 $34,450 $34,450.01 - $49,025 5 $40,352 $40,352.01 - $57,424 6 $46,254 $46,254.01 - $65,823 7 $52,156 $52,156.01 - $74,222 8 $58,058 $58,058.01 - $82,621 Application forms are sent to all homes, with a notice to parents or guardians. To apply for free or reduced price benefi ts, or free milk, households must fill out the application and return it to the school (unless notified at the start of the school year that children are eligible through direct certification). Applications may be submitted at any time during the year.
If a household member becomes unemployed or if the household size changes, the family should contact the school. Such changes may make the household eligible for free or reduced price benefits, or free milk, if the household income falls at or below the levels shown above, and they may reapply at that time.
Children formally placed in foster care are also eligible for free meal benefits. Foster children may be certified as eligible without a household application. Households with foster children and non-foster children may choose to include the foster child as a household member, as well as any personal income available to the foster child, on the same application that includes their non-foster children.
For more information, contact Cadott Community Schools, Att.: Debra Zais, Food Service Director, 426 Myrtle St., Cadott, WI 54727, call 715-289-3795, ext. 11207, or email zaisd@cadott.k12.wi.us.
